The Long Island City Parent’s Group has come up with an interesting proposal for LIC landmark 5 Pointz, the graffiti-covered warehouse its owners plan to demolish, although it’s still unclear what’s ...

What 5 Pointz looks like today. This solution would of course require working around and inside of 5 Pointz’s existing facade and would likely be more complex than simply razing it to the ground and ...

The open-air graffiti gallery known as 5 Pointz today started life as five-story factory in Long Island City, Queens. In the early ’90s, the building was designated as a space where aspiring taggers ...

A few weeks ago, the fate of the infamously graffiti-tagged 5 Pointz building appeared to be certain doom. But in a frantic effort to save the Long Island City warehouse from becoming new condo towers ...

“A cornerstone of the culture” is how Charm, a Brooklyn-based DJ-turned-artist, described 5 Pointz in 2011. And three years later, as we look back at this fall’s closing of the world’s premiere ...

When 5 Pointz, the iconic New York City graffiti destination, got buffed earlier this year, who knew it would set a precedent for graffiti removal worldwide. A French ad agency that’s moving into the ...

was alive in Brooklyn yesterday, as a group of artists gathered to paint a 911 tribute wall, as they did each year at the famed Queens graffiti landmark. Dedicated to 911 EMT, FDNY, and FDNY, the ...

A Queens community board changed its tune and threw its support behind expansion plans for a luxury development rising on Long Island City’s former 5 Pointz graffiti haven. Father-son developer duo ...

The impending razing of 5 Pointz to make way for two large residential towers has attracted lots of attention in New York City for its classic artists-versus-developer narrative, but the story has now ...

While litigation between graffiti artists and developer Jerry Wolkoff, surrounding the 2013 whitewashing of the 5 Pointz site, continues, the HTO Architects-designed rental towers that have replaced ...

5 Pointz, the 200,000-square-foot warehouse that was long a centerpiece for New York City street artists, was whitewashed last night. The building, which has served as an exhibition space for top ...

Seven years after 5 Pointz, a mecca for graffiti that took over the Neptune Meter factory in Long Island City, was whitewashed and demolished by late developer Jerry Wolkof without prior notice, the ...